Coffee shop auto right here in columbus for hosting us all week. Exceptional hosts. We really appreciate it. Chuck todd will be back tomorrow with more mtp daily, tune in tonight with a special edition of hardball, 11 00 p. M. Eastern and with all due respect starts right now. Im jothe pride of miami, in pocket, fires a spiral to his receiver, oh, so close. Now rubio takes the snap. Oh, he drops it. Rubio passes to his man. Just out of reach. Here comes a quick one to rubio, he snags it, heres the hand off. A fumble. Rubio, wide open. Youch. One final chance for rubio to save the game. Can he do it. A couple thousand but what were seeing is a couple of
hundred. Not even filling the end zone. A hfrtitan nicbrirery, luck 13. The volley of personal attacks got a little out of hand the last debate. As we prepare for tonights sequel, controversies exploding all around the frontrunner. Donald j. Trump certain to come up during the debate tonight, at least some of them, the first flat came from an interview he did with Anderson Cooper last night, where he was asked how muslims view the west. Do you think islam is at war the west . I think islam hates us. There is something there that is a tremendous hatred there. We have to get to the bottom of it. There is an unbelievable hatred of us. In islam itself . Youre going to have to figure that out, okay. Youll get another, but a tremendous hatred and we have to be very vigilant, very careful, and we cant allow people coming into this country who have this hatred of the United States. I guess the question is and of people that are not muslim. So this has been a huge controversy since he said it on social media and cable. He said things like this in the past, it has helped him and will this hurt him and will he address it in the debate tonight. Does it hurt him getting the republican nomination, hurt him in the chances of being the
president of the United States. In getting the republican nomination, weve seen through exit polls a vast majority of Republican Voters are favoring a muslim ban, its just a fact. Do i think it will hurt him with those voters, i do not. Do i think that it will make it impossible for him to be unifying president of the United States if he actually believes there are millions of muslims in the United States who clearly do not hate america, who have kid whose go off and fight and die for this country overseas. Its an outrageous statement and again, make it very hard to be a unifying figure in the country. Will it hurt him in terms of the votes we have coming down the road, i dont think that necessarily history is that he wont take it back and it wont hurt him. I think were at an important time with the debate tonight and where the antitrump forces are trying to get statements just like this to take him down. I think one of the implications tonight is which of the other almost certain, trump will be asked about it, the other candidates will be asked about
it. Thats almost a certainty. How will the others step up . Weve seen in the past, weve seen candidates pull their punches, but someone do you have a decency moment tonight which elevates them. Its not hard for the other candidates to stand up and say there is an element of radical islam around america that hates america, but there are peace loving citizens of this country and other countries who have no hatred, they love the country as much as you do, mr. Trump. Trump controversy number two. Campaign rally in fayetteville, North Carolina, one of the donald supporters in the audience cold cocked a protest ter in the face. Today, that protester spoke to msnbc kate snow about the incident. Youve said that when you woke up today and saw the video online, because people started sharing it, thats when it really hit you. Yeah. Yes, maam. Because i tell me about your thoughts. I felt it, and yeah, i was there, but it seemed it didnt seem it was like i got hit, and now im on the ground getting detained by the police and i did not look at the videos, and i really got hid, and they watched it. Really, like, as you could see on being escorted by officers, like theyre still at theyre still leading me up the stairs. There has understandably been a lot of reaction to this today, including from Hillary Clinton, who had a response in this interview with rachel maddow. Count me among those who are truly distraught and even appalled by a lot of what i see going on, what i hear being said, you know. You dont make America Great by, you know, dumping on everything that made America Great, like
freedom of speech, and assembly, and you know, the right of people to protest. Clearly, i know that everybody in public life gets protested against, and sometimes people do have to be removed. But it should be done in an appropriate manner. Other people in the audience should not be joining in. Mr. Trump should not be urging people on. This is deeply distressing, and i think as the Campaign Goes further, more and more americans are going to be in a really disturbed by the kind of campaign he is running. Mark, this comes after what a lot of people see as a pattern, emerging pattern of rowdy, including a Time Magazine photographer who got choke slammed by a secret Service Agent a couple of weeks ago. Do you think trump himself bear responsibility for the atmosphere that is becoming
pervasive at some of these events, and the actual incidents of violence in question . They do. They make an announcement saying dont engage in violence and there is sometimes these incidents that they dont know about, obviously. These dont happen at other candidates events. He has had things on the podium about people leaving on stretchers. My view is that theyre not fully responsible for stopping it or the incidents that happen in every case, theyre now responsible for aggressively trying to tamp, and saying dont hit people is not enough. Sort of a mocking tone in that pa announcement, sort of like a kind of a joking quality about it. Trump himself whips people up and the comments he talked about, he wanted to punch somebody in the mouth, back in the old days, people would have been taken out on a stretcher. He ferments i think, not directly violence, he doesnt tell people to go hit other
people, but the mood in these crowds is something that i have not seen, and ive been doing this for the past 25 years, president ial Campaign Rallies, it happens at almost every trump event. Its way too cavalier about it. Ill say again, i dont know if hell get at it tonight. I will say, another means that is feeding into the antitrump forces to say there is something off about this. To rally other people in the party against him. If they dont do something about it soon, something much worse is going to happen at one of these rallies, and it will be a huge problem. That looks pretty bad. Im not diminishing it. Hours before the debate, something happened on his press conference on thursday night, allegedly, when reporter Michelle Fields, allegedly, had a rough encounter who she says grabbed her arm and nearly forced her to the ground after
she was trying to Ask Donald Trump a question. A Washington Post reporter identified the person as Trump Campaign manager lewandowski. Their sides of the sorry, trump said such an incident never happened. Dismiss fields, calling her a quote, attention seeker. The ceo is demanding that lewandowski apologize. Will this fight hurt him in the debate or in general . Well, i think in general, donald trump does not have that many news organizations that are favorable towards him. This one has been. I think in terms of the media that drives coverage on the right, bright bar matters a lot. Being in a fight with them is no good. It goes back to our previous topic. Roughhousing, roughness, undue roughness going on, but it talks about the other things in the rally that we see is their attitude how they treat the
press, is again, not something you normally see in president ial Campaign Rallies and the way they treat the press has not been appropriate for a long time. Its a broader issue. No video, even though a lot of video cameras in the room, and the campaign denies it. I can say trump can fieght with the New York Times, fighting with them is a different thing. Different elements to them, but all three of them, again, i think in both in the antitrump forces to say this guy, remember what jeb bush called him, a chaos candidate. Right. And there is an instability that comes out of these. The trump people will complain about the whole thing, but this is, i think, great news for the antitrump forces, whether youre john kasich, marco rubio or ted cruz. You can benefit. Two things quickly. I know weve heard the bell, but a photograph of this woman with a bruise on her arm. It doesnt prove anything. But there is something that happened there. And corey lewandowski, his eksz plan nations and posture has
shifted somewhat. We need more clarity from corey. It cant be dismissive and cant be about attacking this reporter. So now, some nontrump news. Marco rubio has expressed remorse last night over his campaigns decision to get way too aggressive and personal with donald trump. Last month, rubios campaign stumbled after he looked too robotic and rehearsed on the debate stage. After failing to win contests, poll number drops, he must win florida, no one on the debate stage who needs a break through performance more. So what if anything could marco rubio do to change his fortunes . Supporters have long said a world class president ial candidate and political figure, tonight is the night for him to rise to the occasion. I dont think hell do done rickils dismissive of trump, but he needs to explain why he is the best republican nominee and the best president ial candidate. Can he do that on a four persp stage, it will be hard. The idea of shifting strategy, taking on trump was a good idea for marco rubio. The way in which he did it was not a good idea for marco rubio and it has certainly backfired on him. I dont know how easy it is for him now. He cant retreat to optimistic generational the bartender. He cant go back to that, without looking like a clown. So he is going to need to find some way to say you know what, ive taken this conversation in the wrong direction, but donald trump still needs to be confronted. Its a tough line to walk, but he has got to get there somehow. The reality is there john kasich and ted cruz are perfectly good on the debate stage. Marco rubio has a different style and its a powerful style. Lets see if he can pull the preverbial rabbit. The michigan momentum to the
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you have candidate who is not willing to take on the establishment. Bernie sanders is definitely not afraid to take on the system. He looks beyond the system and sees better possibilities for us. He sees it not the way it has wbrid wbr9763 to be. Im Bernie Sanders and i approved this message. The second ad we want to show you is an ad that features sanders getting arrested for civil disobedience in his youth. The fight against justice and inequality has been the work of his life. Bernie sanders, as i a student, he was arrested protesting segregation. He was there when dr. King marched in washington. Now, he has taken on a broken criminal justice system, Police Misconduct and end mass inn carp rati cars ration. Its time to stay with him. Im Bernie Sanders and i approved this message. So mark, Bernie Sanders rides out of michigan with a lot of
momentum. Weve talked about that. Five big contests, couple bigger than the others, but five big ones on tuesday. Where do you think the state of play is now . Clearly ohio, missouri and illinois. For sanders. For sanders. Sanders claims that things have narrowed, theyve seen improvement on the ground, not tied, but narrowed gaps. If you are a campaign that comes out of public polling has you down 20 and you win, you think maybe the same dynamic will play. I think theyre very good for illinois and ohio. The trade message that he is now driving is a good message for all of the three states you mentioned. The fact that he was able to get a quarter of the black vote in michigan, replicate it in ohio and illinois and particular, puts him in the game in those three states, i dont believe they have any chance he will win florida. Delegates. Accumulate delegates. The previous strategy was on super tuesday, dont worry about
delegates, weve got to win states. This state is totally different. Accumulate delegates. Ill tell you where the clinton people have a little problem. Political director, amanda, talked to us and said we need to exercise the message. We saw it, the Campaign Manager said the same thing. We need to clarify her position on trade better. Well, clarify her position on trade, because she has changed her position on trade. What does she stand for on jobs and trade. Shes going to have to do that in a powerful way. There are a bunch of things where the smell test is a problem for the clinton campaign. Trade, you and i know theyre free traders to the depth of their souls. You know why she stands. Most people in their heart know, because of nafta, all the things that happened in the 90s. They attack sanders on things that dont pass the smell test in the other direction. The coke brothers. Calling him like that is he a
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